Power Function Applications

Allometric Scaling

Allometry is the study of the relative change in proportion of an attribute compared to another one during the growth of an organism. These attributes may be morphological, physiological, or otherwise.

In the exponential function module we showed how allometric equations are derived. In this section, we sill use allometric equations, which are power functions, in calculations. Our example is the relationship between insect body mass and resting metabolic rate.